Alien world

Chapter 214 67. Skip
"Do you know how hard that is?"

Olmedo seemed to see the boy with the stick charging towards the windmill.

"People don't waste precious time on literacy."

"But it will make them more money in the future."

"Give a commoner a silver piece, or promise him a gold piece this time next year, which do you think he will choose?"

"One silver coin..."

The reality of northerners is as cold as winter.

Unless Annan recruited them to study at a price of 10 copper coins per day, this would lose the original intention of using newspapers to make money.Annan can do this in Xingyue Bay, because they are his people, Breeze City can barely do it, what about Beitar City, Fengrao City, and further city-states?
Newspapers are less valuable as tools for propaganda and manipulation of discourse when the masses cannot read them.

Annan also thought of letting everyone accept a common language proficiency——

As a master of lingua franca, elite mages can cast spells five to fifteen times a day, master mages can cast spells thirty times a day, and epic mages can barely satisfy a small town with some effort.But epic mages are either preparing for the Legendary Rush or traveling the world exploring ruins.

As for where to gather so many elite mages... It can be done by emptying the mage tower.

And the common language is proficient in two kinnars at a time. With the relationship between Annan and the Master Tower and small profits but quick turnover, it should be possible to negotiate at the price of one gold coin per person. The entire Xingyue Bay "only" costs about 2000 gold coins.

It is known that the population of Breeze City is about 30, and the tax revenue is about [-] gold coins...with less than four years of tax revenue, everyone in Breeze City can be literate.

But there will always be people willing to read and write, so he revealed the real reason why Olmedo attacked Annan: "You will cause a crisis for the nobles..."

"The status of the nobility stems from wealth and knowledge...and you want to share the knowledge of 'theirs' with what they consider 'untouchables'?"

"Not even the King of the North?"

"How many professionals does the King of the North have?"

Annan was speechless when asked. If he had a trustworthy and strong subordinate, he wouldn't have to run around.He thought of Mrs. Winter, she was the flower of the snowfield, a cousin of the royal family, her status was like a prince, and she would respond to every request in Betal City.

But without those powers of her own, Mrs. Winter would have the title of Snowfield Flower and Royal Cousin.

"You can't do this in Breeze City, you can only let Xingyue Bay do this. Before Xingyue Bay becomes a city-state like Breeze City."

If the newspaper could move and make a sound, it would be fine, so there would be no need to face pressure from the nobles... It's just that new spells need to be researched. Annan has to find a mage above the master level, such as an elf mentor... Mr. Swallow?
"Isn't your magic image very interesting? Why let them learn?"

Olmedo's inquiry suddenly reminded Annan, why couldn't he skip the newspaper and start with the news?
Isn't the image recorded by the Philosopher's Stone more vivid and interesting than the dry text?Although the price is also prohibitively high, Annan has a cheap record of the Philosopher's Stone readily available.

knock knock --

"Come in."

The captain of the guard came back with only a few books left. Annan came back to his senses, his black eyes glowing.

"Have you figured it out?" Olmedo showed her warm smile.

"Well, I'll show you the results in a few days." Annan took the books, "Can I take them?"

"These are just copies."

Before going out, Olmedo called Annan: "Snow Mountain Fortress is open to navigation, it's time for you to prepare a belated New Year's gift for your friends in the fortress."

"The frost giant has retreated?"

"The city guards and mercenaries have been clearing them out for the past few months, and they don't dare to attack us anymore."

"Then get me a box of storybooks, like The Adventures of Oakham."

Annan left the room, and Olmedo got up, walked around the desk, and stood in front of the window.The carriage with the snowflake emblem driving out of the square, the focus of the pair of light blue eyes returning from the distant carriage to the reflection on the window——

The caps of the children rushing towards the windmill were lifted by the wind, revealing Olmedo's immature face.

"Father, I want to be the lord of the city, and I want Breeze City to have no poor people!"

Young Olmedo broke into the study and called out to his father, who was standing by the window.

The warbler-tailed bird nestled in her light-blond hair came out and flew along the open window to the garden beyond.

"As long as you are willing to bear the price of failure, my child." Augusta turned her head and said to her gently, "just like this warbler. If you want to raise it, you have to accept the consequences of its death." Pain. This is what fate has given us, and we call it, the price."

"Fate? I don't understand..."

"Whatever we gain, we will also lose. I have you, so I lost your mother. If you want to get Breeze City, what will you lose?"

……

On the way back to Xingyue Bay, Annan flipped through the books he brought back. The situation in Grogda, the Howler's hometown, was more complicated than imagined...

Going through it in order, not long after the howler left, its tribe was invaded by the nearby human kingdom. The lords and farmers wanted to turn the fertile dry swamp into farmland, and the ratmen also came to grab a piece of the pie and rob the villages built by humans. An eerie plague breaks out, where vampires spread schistosomiasis...

The latest news is that two years ago, Grogda had turned into a battleground for several ethnic groups.It doesn't matter who wins or loses, because the orc tribe in Grogda is already over.

Hope Howler can accept this sad news...

Annan returned to Xingyue Bay on the seventh day of departure.

Annan called the Howler first, and handed the books to it: "The status quo of Grogda is in these books..."

Howler fell silent, as if he already knew the answer.

"what happened?"

Howler's saliva splashed on Annan's face: "Why do you think an orc can read?"

Annan thought that the Howler was right, opened the portal and kicked it to Breeze City, and then suddenly thought, why should the people spend several months to learn to read and then learn knowledge, instead of directly proficient in the common language?
Why do you have to follow the steps when you can solve it with money?
Annan asked the ogre to find the bard, and climbed up the low hill again.

The foundation of the future school has just been built, and the blue dragon's lair has begun to take shape. Annan touched the dragon scale to release a low-level summoning technique, showing the blue dragon its future home, such as a larger space, such as a rock mound for its convenience. gilded.

Maybe it was the dragon hunting team that upset the blue dragon, and it destroyed the portal.When the goodwill hit a wall, Annan opened the portal again, and handed over to the bard the matter of going to the mage tower to find a group of mages.

"You make a bard as free as the wind work like a worker!"

"So 'Bard as free as the wind', how close are you to becoming an elite?"

"I'll go to the Mage Tower to find Michael immediately."

(End of this chapter)